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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To melt and drip down, as a candle. Grose;
Examples
“But I spoze I must have droze off, for all to once I wuz passin 'through a great silent city.”
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Retrologisms
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Funky Old English and Middle English words presented for you.swyve, gowk, hwæt, droze, angnaegl, cashmarie, frith, cuttystool, scrid, perfract, cogitabund, juise and 41 more...
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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drip dry
inspired by yfes drype, a new mourn!
drippiness, quadriphyllous, dripstone, dripless, dript, quadriphonic, dripple, drippy, drippings, drippage, trickle, beer mat and 8 more...
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hernesheir An old provincial term from Kent England.
The Grose following Wordnik's Century Dictionary definition refers to Francis Grose's 1787 A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, No. 212, High Holborn, opposite Bloomsbury-Square.
May 7, 2011
fbharjo 'The Dizzard of Droze' Nov 29, 2010
jmjarmstrong JM hates it when he has to talk with someone with a droze nose. Aug 29, 2010
flannagan To melt irregularly and drip, as a candle. Jul 30, 2007